Safety pocket



E. PETRONIO SAFETY POCKET Dec. 26, 1933.

Filed March 12, 1952 Patented Dec. 26, 1933 V I i i v UNITED srA'rEs PATENT" ori ice Application March 12, 1932. Serial N0.598,460

3 Claims. (01. 2--254) My invention particularly relates to safety and 8, respectively, which flaps are of irregular pockets for clothing whereby the loss of coins, four-sided formation and'ares-ecured by three keys, bill-folds, and other articles usually carside edges to the member 3. The four sidesof the ried in the pockets of clothing, is obviated. The front partition 4 are indicated by the numbers 5 object of the invention'is to provide simple means 6, '7, S and 9, and'the side 9 is at the bottom and 60 furnishing the stated protection which can be is the side which is not attached to the member 3. economically and easily applied and which will correspondingly the'four sides of the rear parnot be cumbersome or mar. the appearance of the tition 5 are indicated by the numbers 10, ll, 12 garment. and 13 and the side 13 is at the bottom and is The annexed drawing and the f w g (1 the one which is not attached to the member 3. s'cription set forth in detail certain means em The general shape of the flaps 4 and 5 is the same bodying my invention, such disclosed means oonexcept that the front flap 4 is deeper than the stituting, however, but two of the various forms rear flap 5 along the inside short edge and more in which the principle of the invention may be shallow along the outside long edge, so that the 15 embodied. flap 4 hangs below the flap 5,, in the centerand 70 In said annexed drawing: is above the flap 5 at the outside edge, as clearly Fi 115 a fra m ntary l v i n of he upp r indicated in Figure 6, in the open detached conright id f a p f r rs 01 v r ll in updition of the pocket. However, when the member right position, and showing in dotted lines a 3 is folded in the vertical plane bisecting the trousers side pocket embodying one form of my lower notched area 3 to produce the pocket 75' l improved safety features, as also certain coins chamber l4,and the edges 15 and 15, of th in the pocket; her 3 are secured to the bands 17 and it, respec- Figures 2 and 3 are horizontal sections, taken. tively, by means of which the pocket is secured, respectively, in the planes indicated by the lines adjacent the pocket opening 19, to thesmember 3, a d 3- Figure the flap bottom edges 9 and 13 intersect in'a criss- 80 Figure 4 is a View Similar to Figure 3, S w g cross fashion, substantially in the center of the he v r positions f the p ke parts a d the pocket, as clearly indicated in Figure 1, the botcoins contained therein, when the garment wearer tom point of the edge 8 lying substantiallyin the s in & reclining DOSitiOll; same horizontal plane as the bottom point of the Figure 5 Sa V t c S ct on, taken in the plane edge 11, so that a symmetrical bottom opening 85' indicated y the Figure 20 between the flaps i and 5 is formed, as clearly Figure 6 is an elevation of the interior side of indicated in Figure 3. It is evident that side the pocket in expanded or flat condition before it openings 21 nd 22 are formed between the sides is appliedv to the garment; of the folded member 3 and the respective flaps Figures 7 and 8 are elevations of detached 4 and 5, which side openings 21 and 22 provide 90 front and rear partition members, respectively, no means of escape for pocket contents at the forming parts of the improved safety pocket; top, inasmuch as the edges 6andv10 of the flaps Figure 9 is a fragmentary elevation of a gar- 4 and 5 are secured to the member 3. It will be ment in normal wearing position and provided noted that these edges 6 and 10 of the flaps 4 and 40 with another form of my improved safety pocket, 5 are inclined at substantially a angle and the view also showing a bill-fold in the safety thus conserve considerable material in making pocket; the flaps 4 and 5, that portion 23 of the pocket Figure 10 is a vertical section, taken in the chamber which is thus eliminated as a container plane indicated by the line'l0l0, Figure 9; and for contents being a portion of the pocket cham- 45 Figure 11 is a view similar to Figure 10, showbar which is of no value or use in any event, as

ing the positions of the several-elements when will bereadily understood. The unattached botthe pocket is tilted. torn edges 9 and13 of the flaps 4 and 5 are formed Referring to the annexed drawing in which the with a piping to insure a finished edge and to aid same parts are designated by the same respective in the smooth hanging ofthe bottom portions of 50 numbers in the several views, a pair of trousers the flaps. 1, Figures 1 to 5, is provided with my improved The described construction provides means, safety pocket 2 which comprises a fabric memwherebythe pocket contents, such as coins 24, her 3 of the form, in opened condition, clearly will slide upon the inside surface of the member indicated in Figure 6, and two partition flaps 4 3 into the closed pockets 21 and 22, when the 55 and 5, of the form clearly shown in Figures 7 wearer of the garment 1 is in a'reclining position,

' as clearly indicated in Figure 4, or when the pocket 2 is tilted for any reason. The flaps 4 and 5 will not adhere to the inner surface of the member 3 and thus direct the pocket contents into 5 the opening 25 between the flaps 4 and 5, but

the contents will tend to dish one side or" the member 3, as clearly indicated in Figure 4, and

increase the size and entrance opening of the pockets 21 and/or 22,.and thus facilitate the entry of the pocket contents into the closed chambers.

The inclined formation of the flap edges 6 and 10 prevents the pocket contents from entering and becoming locked in an elusive and inaccessible rear top portion of the pocket chamber.

The relative sizes of the flaps 4 and 5, and particularly the relative lengths of the edges 8 and 12, and the inclined form of the bottom edges 9 and 13, provide both a symmetrical formation and yet serve to divert the pocket contents into the openings 21 and 22 in a much more effective manner than would be possible with flaps having bottom edges which are aligned and substantially parallel one with the other.

In the form of safety'pocket illustrated in Fig- 25 ures 9, 10 and 11, the pocket material 26, intended particularly for a coat or vest pocket having a top opening, is folded so as to provide an auxiliary chamber 28 vertically aligned with and above the normal pocket chamber 27. The pocket ma- I terial 2G is connected to the coat or other garment 29 so as to form a side opening 30 adjacent the top 'of the pocket and substantially laterally aligned with the bottom of the auxiliary chamber 28. When the pocket is-tilted because of the i bending over-of the wearer, or for any other reason, the pocket contents such as a letter or a billfold 31 will slide into the auxiliary chamber 28, as clearly illustrated in Figure 11, and thus be prevented from falling out of the pocket through the pocket opening 30. There is no difficulty in inserting the contents intothe pocket 27 with this construction inasmuch as the depending coat flap 32 and the outside wall 28 of the auxiliary cham- 46 ?ber 28 above the pocket opening 30 readily bend inwardly to permit the insertion of the flat pocket package within the chamber 27.

What I claim is: Y

1. A safety pocket for wearing apparel comprising a folded member secured at its edges to form an article-containing chamber having an ingress and egress opening, and a plurality of depending flaps secured within and to said memher and forming an auxiliary chamber between adjacent flaps and side chambersbetween said flaps and the adjacent inner walls of the folded member, said auxiliary and side chambers having bottom, openings communicating with said article-containing chamber, and said side chambers being closed at the top, the bottom edges of saidfiaps being inclined to induce a crosswise movement of articles in the containing chamber in a tilted position of the pocket, the bottom edges of said flaps for their entire length being free from each other and from the adjacent inner chamber, and said side chambers being closed at the sides and top, the bottom edges of said flaps being inclined in opposite directions so as to intersect in criss-cross fashion adjacent the center of the pocket whereby there is induced a crosswise movement of articles in the containing chamber and into the bottom openings of said side chambers in a tilted position of the pocket.

3. A safety pocket according to claim 1 and in which the upper edges of the flaps are inclined relative to the fold of the folded member.

' ELISEO PETRONIO.

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